CHURCH MILLINERY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 752, 12 April 1877, Page 3

CHURCH MILLINERY.

Sm,—l acknowledge the slight error, if it was one, by saying in my last, published in your ieauo of the sth inst, that he.'the Rev Mr got an altar erected, but .^l^as'nditaware of the <xact time Church was addrned with iiich'iv piece! of furniture, so that I thought lifesqif' little Whether it wsisereotejil on last Good Friday, or: the day oh Which St Peter's was first opened. My simply asking if such furnitureV&d,-should boused in our Church* ■■■P i WitU; refijrd to the' altar, I must say .jT' biive never known the cdmmunioln table to be called an altar, except' by .Ritualists, which I hope Hamilton w- free from.—l an), &c, A Member o» the KKdtisH Church.

Hamilton, 9th April, 1877. [We detest Ritualism as the Devil is said to hate holy water, jet we have always called and heard the altar called nn alta , : and not a communion, table. It is bo called even by the .Evangelical or Low Church clergy. We are glad our correspondent has again referred to the matter, as it enables us;toatate that our description of the decorations was incorrect, and calculated to mislead, inasmuch as we inadvertently used tHe term? •* crucifix " for "cross." The altar was simply draped with a black cloth,, bearing on it a white cross and motto.—Ed W.T.]